A daunting part of any writers carear, Stephen King kept all of his on a wall, others will have their own special ways of dealing with the monster.
I wanted to start a fun post with some ways of 'coping'
"Turn them into paper aeroplanes and see if you can land them in the toilet" is the type of think i am looking for... "remember that you are just not what they are looking for and keep on trying" is not, you can get that sort of thing elsewhere.
witty anecdotes, dry humor and a little bit of narcissism and irony are all welcome here. Who knows, rejection letters may start to be fun.
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Adrian that list is soul food! :D
Auntie Mame, Patrick Dennis (15)
Carrie, Stephen Kng (30)
Chicken Soup for the Soul, Jack Canfeld and Mark Victor Hansen (140)
Dr. Seuss books (15)
Dubliners, James Joyce (22)
Dune, Frank Herbert (23)
Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell (38)
Harry Potter book one, J. K. Rowling (9)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach (18)
Kon-Tiki, Thor Heyerdahl (20)
M*A*S*H, Richard Hooker (17)
The Peter Principle, Laurence Peter (16)
The Prncess Diaries, Meg Cabot (17)
Watership Down, Richard Adams (26)
A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L’Engle, (26)
Use rejection slips as bookmarks in 'Lord of the Flies', 'Ann Frank's Diary', 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' (all famously rejected multiple times), or better still, 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit' (self-published)!
And when you become a successful reject, don't hesitate to use your tin of rejection slips to light the fire at your log cabin, bought with the proceeds of your book's first million sales!!